I giorni della settimana (the days of the week) consist of lunedì (Monday), martedì (Tuesday), mercoledì (Wednesday), giovedì (Thursday) and venerdì (Friday).
Where do these names derive from? lunedì is from la luna (moon), martedì from il pianeta Marte (the planet Mars), mercoledì from Mercurio (Mercury), giovedì from Giove (Jupiter), and venerdìfrom Venere (Venus). The suffix [...]
Italian consonants are relatively easy to pronounce as they follow simple rules and there are no irregularities in spelling as there are in English.
The following consonants are pronounced as you would expect them to be:
b, d, f, l, m, n, p, s, q, t, v, x
However, these consonants are a little different:
c - is pronounced [...]
When learning any language there will always be moments when you want to give up, throw your text book in the bin, punch your teacher and go and take up karate instead. This usually happens after the initial excitement has worn off and you start to realise that it’s not quite as simple as they [...]
